Dick Morris Quotes about Politics

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.